Reducing Drug Use and Disease on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Apr. 24, 2017
The woman was a crack user, engaged in the sex trade and living on the streets of San Salvador. When Julia Lechuga and other public health advocates first met her, she was seeking respite at a soup kitchen in the troubled city, where violence and illicit drug use was rampant.
The woman decided to take an HIV test offered by Project Encuentro, a five-year international project that Lechuga was helping to develop and implement to reduce risky behaviors among drug users, and thus, help curtail the spread of infectious diseases in El Salvador's capital city.
